Priceline Hotel Help: Articles for Bidding Travelers - Page 4

Priceline For Three Guests

One of the lesser known rules about Priceline, when using its Name Your Own Price to bid on a hotel room, is that the room you book is only guaranteed to accommodate a maximum of 2 people. Despite Priceline pointing this out during the bidding process, it is sometimes ignored by travellers who are upset when they arrive at their hotel and the hotel cannot provide a room with enough beds for more than 2 people. Here is Priceline’s official policy:

Priceline Express Deals

Priceline has introduced a new product called Priceline Express Deals. This new feature is different from the Name Your Own Price bidding scheme that disrupted the travel industry by allowing travellers to bid on a hotels. Now, Priceline’s new feature, Express Deals, gives travellers more information about their hotel (such as hotel amenities) before they book their hotel and doesn’t require bidding – the price you see is the price you pay.

Union Square Hotels on Priceline

San Francisco’s Union Square is one of the most popular tourist areas of San Francisco. If you’re looking to stay at a hotel in the Union Square area and will be bidding on a hotel via Priceline, here is some tips to help you identify your San Francisco hotel.

Priceline Bidding Zones in Union Square: The 2 “Union Square” bidding zones on Priceline are: Union Square East and Union Square West – Nob Hill. If you’re looking for a hotel in the area, I would also consider bidding in the SOMA – Moscone Center zone as well. It’s a bit further away but if you don’t mind a 5 minute walk to Union Square, you can find a really good deal.

Union Square East: This is the preferred bidding zone if you’re wanting to stay as close as possible to Union Square. Accessible from the San Francisco Airport via the BART (Powell Street Station), this area is really easy to get to by public transit. On the negative side, some of the hotels are located right on Powell Street, the main cable car line which can be noisy if you’re looking to sleep in. Hotels in this bidding zone that are known to be on Priceline, as reported by members of the Priceline Forum, include:

Priceline Waikiki

Travelers to Hawaii should check out Priceline if they’re going to be staying at a hotel. I’m currently spending some time in Waikiki and here in part to make it easier to help travelers navigate their way through bidding on hotels in Hawaii.

In Oahu, there’s really only 3 main areas around Oahu: North Shore, Ko Olina, Honolulu and Waikiki.

North Shore: If you see a hotel in this area, it’s almost certainly the Turtle Bay Resort. It doesn’t come up often on Priceline so if you see this hotel during your travels, nab it quickly.

Ko Olina: This is another area on Oahu that doesn’t have a lot of hotels, so it’s easy to identify your hotel before you bid. Just look for the “resort” hotel and it’s more than likely to be the JW Marriott Ihilani Resort. See the Priceline Oahu hotel list.

Priceline & Hotwire Hotel List Changes

Thanks to a software developer friend, I added some changes to the Hotwire and Priceline hotel lists.  As you probably know, HotelDealsRevealed is a great way to get help when bidding for travel, and in particular, hotels.  For Priceline, the hotel lists are particularly helpful when trying to figure out what hotel you might get. […]

Priceline Hotel List – Youtube Video

This is a video recently posted on Youtube to provide an overview of how to use Priceline hotel lists when bidding on Priceline hotels.